2 Community Answers

Todd

JW Player Support Agent

Jun 15, 2016 07:48AM EDT0rated :

The Free version of our player does not support HLS playback. The video embeds we provide in the account dashboard list your MP4 sources in order of lowest quality to highest. You should see those options by clicking on the HD button.

We do not have built-in functionality to set a default quality on the player level, but you can do this with our Platform API. You can also use our Javascript API to change the current video quality.

Todd

JW Player Support Agent

Jun 15, 2016 07:59AM EDT0rated :

To set the default template for a specific player, I believe you use the template_key parameter on the /players/update endpoint but I have not tested this myself. Please see https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/reference/v1/methods/players/update.html for more details.

Using Javascript, you can also call jwplayer().setCurrentQuality(index) in an .on(‘ready’) function like this: